Shampoo Series – Sex, Bliss and Clarity

What if . . .

What if our desire for sex and orgasm is a built-in way to get us to relax and experience bliss, the peace of God and clarity of being at rest in that peaceful bliss?

In the same way that “Zooming in On Death,” the IAM Meditation from Steven Sashen, on which much of my Shampoo Series is based, brings us to a place  . . .

Well, let’s do it first.

Imagine you are dying.

It doesn’t matter how you got there. Could be an accident, a disease, whatever. Find yourself at the exact moment of death, the place of no return. Not one second before, not one second after.

Not when you’re still alive and might still live.

Not when you’ve died and you are seeing some thing that might come next.

Just the very precise instant in which you die.

(Steven describes this very clearly and guides you though it in his IAM Meditation CD’s or online – see the link to the right, if you want the full story and details.)

So, we’re going to “zoom in on death.”

At that instant of dying, what do you find?

Focus in on that, get into the tiniest segment of the tiniest moment of release – you’re dying.

Okay.

If you got some sensation, some awareness, how would you describe it? (Sorry, I’m not going to tell you what to experience. That’s for you to discover.)

Whatever you discover there, isn’t sex like that?

The French call it “la petite morte,” the little death,” for a reason.

Personally, I think Christ had it right, but the Christians, the church, lacking the experience and right-mindedness of Christ, got it backwards. Sex is one of the most powerful ways to find God. Of course, I could go all paranoid and imagine that the church knew this and wanted to keep it from the masses so they’d have the power.

*shrug*  Doesn’t matter. We can find the truth within ourselves in an instant. That’s what Christ taught – “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heavin is  – ” where?

“Within.”

Christ was a mystic – he had a direct experience of Spirit and tried to leave us some breadcrumbs to find that within.

That’s the real “secret.”

Not willfully trying to bend the Universe to our whims.

When you have done the IAM Meditation, “Zooming in on Death,” you may notice that no matter what, you win. Even if you haven’t quote, unquote, “gotten it,” by then, in that last instant of release, you win. You get the prize. You get the peace. You get the clarity.

Often, don’t we feel like that after an orgasm?

Isn’t our sexual drive one of the strongest there is? Isn’t it something we spend days and years of our lives pursuing?

Maybe it isn’t the girl or the guy, maybe it isn’t the marriage or the sex, maybe what we are really after, the thing that makes our sex drive so compelling, so relentless, is that it takes us to that very same place of release, peace, and clarity.

Who thought that up?

Who made it our deepest desire to get clear and peaceful?

What a brilliant fucking idea!

Love, Ann